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Weekly Review — November 11, 2003, 12:00 am

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Lawyers at the Environmental Protection Agency announced that they were dropping lawsuits against 50 power plants for violating the Clean Air Act, because newly weakened enforcement rules have undermined the cases; theNew York TimesBush Administration previously had promised that the lawsuits would continue after the rules change.New York TimesThe state attorneys general of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, which are downwind from many of the plants, promised to sue the polluters directly.New York TimesA new study found that tiny golden “nano-bullets” could be used in the future to destroy cancer tumors.New ScientistEnvironmentalists sued the federal government to force it …

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No more unto the breach

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The unconquerable world (part two)

By Jonathan Schell

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No more unto the breach

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Why war is futile (part one)

By Jonathan Schell

Readings — From the February 1995 issue

Skinning cats, nonviolently

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The young Negro rebels

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By Charlotte Devree

Article — From the May 1947 issue

Spiritual advice from the mystic Orient

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Editor's easy chair — From the April 1930 issue

The waning faith in force

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By Edward Sandford Martin

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June 2013

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[Editor's Note]

Introducing the June Issue of Harper’s Magazine

Why the AR-15 rifle is here to stay,
the conspiracy theories of Room 237,
and more

By Ellen Rosenbush

[Perspective]

On Gun Control and Collective Rights

The firearm as emblem of personal sovereignty

By Dan Baum

“Let’s review our recent national paroxysm about guns, shall we?”

Illustration by Jeremy Traum

[Report]

How to Make Your Own AR-15

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By Dan Baum

“Even if federal gun-control advocates got everything they wanted, they couldn’t prevent America’s most popular rifle from being made, sold, and used. Understanding why this is true requires an examination of how the firearm is made.”

Illustration by Jeremy Traum

[Harper's Finest]

Gary Greenberg’s “Manufacturing Depression” (2007)

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Wherein the author enrolls in a clinical drug trial

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“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science.”

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Broken Heartland

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By Wil S. Hylton

“During the early 1990s, farmers throughout the Great Plains began to notice a decline in their wells. Irrigation systems from the Dakotas to Texas dipped, and, in some places, have been abandoned entirely.”

Illustration (detail) by Jeffery Smith